Four Stanley Cup rings – owned by the Islanders team lawyer during their unprecedented run of glory – go under an auctioneer’s hammer Monday in Manhattan.
The Championship bling, from 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 all have engraved words “Stanley Cup Champions” and “Frease” – for the rings’ appropriately named owner, Belden Frease, according to Upper East Side auction house Doyle.
Frease, 78, died on Jan. 16. of a rare cancer, according to the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
And his historic rings have been sitting on ice for the last decade.
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